ACTION-285: Crypto keysize references

Hello all,

Here are the document I suggest we should reference about keysizes:

* NIST: http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/kms/SP800-57Part2April2005.pdf
base reference: http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkkeymgmt.html

* The ECRYPT Yearly Report on Algorithms and Key Lengths: (2006 edition)  
http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents/D.SPA.21-1.1.pdf
Main page: http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/
" European Network of Excellence for Cryptology is a 4-year network of  
excellence funded within the Information Societies Technology (IST)  
Programme of the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)"

I think the should be a suggestion that implementers should, when  
possible, follow the most pessimistic recommendation. Example: NIST still  
recommends 1024 bit RSA until 2010, ECRYPT only recommended this until end  
of 2006.

Possible additional reference:

* NESSIE:  
https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/nessie/deliverables/decision-final.pdf
 From https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/nessie/ :
"NESSIE is a project within the Information Society Technologies (IST)  
Programme of the European Commission"

Background/other references:

* RFC 3766: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3766.txt

* The Twirl document: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2004


-- 
Sincerely,
Yngve N. Pettersen
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Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2007 14:43:36 UTC